Flexera

Flexera Software helps application producers and enterprises increase application usage and security, enhancing the value they derive from their software. Our software licensing, compliance, cybersecurity and installation solutions are essential to ensure continuous software licensing compliance, optimized software investments and to future-proof businesses against the risks and costs of constantly changing technology. A marketplace leader for more than 25 years, 80,000+ customers turn to Flexera Software as a trusted and neutral source of knowledge and expertise and for the automation and intelligence designed into our products.

Raynet

Raynet GmbH is a leading and innovative service and solution provider in information technology and specialized in the architecture, implementation and operation of all tasks within "Application Lifecycle Management".

Raynet’s Headquarters is in Paderborn, Germany with additional locations throughout the region. Next to a growing specialized distribution network at locations around the world, Raynet has offices in the USA, Poland and the UK.

For 15+ years, Raynet has supported hundreds of customers and partners with its products and solutions for enterprise application management projects worldwide. These include license management, software packaging, software deployment, migrations and client engineering. Additionally, Raynet maintains and cultivates strong partnerships with leading companies in Application Lifecycle Management.

Raynet products and solutions are unique in design and functionality. Development is highly driven by our customers and partners who play a big role in the direction of our products and are a key reason why our products are always cutting edge. Whether you want to introduce a new deployment tool or to start a SAM project, whether you want to plan a packaging factory or manage an endpoint migration – Raynet is the choice for best-of-breed-practices in services, products, and solutions for Application Lifecycle Management.

Professional Development Systems b.v.

PDS proudly represents the licensing d solutions from these vendors to assist, as independent advisor, endusers and local (resell/implementation/knowledge) partners to create successfull projects in close partnership with "our" manufacturer. PDS is the founder of AppManagEvent since 2006.

AppiXoft

Through our high-end User Workspace Management solution Scense, AppiXoft delivers dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to many thousands of satisfied users worldwide. By applying a virtual separation between the user, desktop and underlying operating system, we transform any complex distributed desktop environment into an easy to manage and transparent infrastructure.

As Scense provides substantial flexibility and freedom to both regular and occasional IT users and, at the same time, allows IT administrators to stay fully in control, the solution ultimately results in happy faces on both sides.

Advanced Installer (Caphyon)

Over the last 10+ years Caphyon has created software applications for developers or Internet professionals that are reliable, secure and easy to use. Advanced Installer is used for authoring MSI packages by a wide users range, from beginners to senior developers and system administrators. Fast and easy to use, it ensures a great ROI for your team as it reduces the time required to create setup packages, leaving more time for development.

Setup Commander (ROVABU Software BV)

Setup Commander provides a new way of creating Applications for deployment in a simple and intuitive way. Creating Applications, finding and deploying installation parameters for software which needs to be deployed is one of the most time consuming and troublesome tasks that administrators must undertake to deploy Windows applications. Setup Commander lowers the cost associated with application management by automating the manual steps that have to be repeated for every new application.

Avecto

Avecto is an absolute innovator in endpoint security. Founded in 2008, the company exists to protect businesses from cyber attacks.
Its endpoint security software, Defendpoint, is a multi-layered prevention engine that stops malware at the endpoint.
It takes a proactive approach, uniquely integrating core capabilities of privilege management and application whitelisting in one lightweight agent.

The unique and award-winning combination of Defendpoint makes prevention possible, allowing businesses to build solid security foundations that protect over 6 million endpoints at many of the world’s most recognizable brands.

The proactive strategy is advocated by analysts, industry experts and independent security professionals alike.
Avecto’s simpler and smarter approach to security makes organizations more secure from day one.
For more bespoke requirements, an experienced and qualified team of consultants is available to guide the implementation and ensure project success.

AppDetails

AppDetails.com is an IT Pro software community created by Bob Kelly in the image of his original AppDeploy.com website. Its focus is on enterprise applications and the tools that manage them. It provides free recommendation services for those seeking application management solutions and services. It also features many valuable self-service resources including a fresh, new software tip repository, discussion forums, an industry event calendar and more.

Liquit

CRTFY.com

Timothy Mangan led the engineering team at Softricity before the company was aquired by Microsoft in July 2006 to be the fundament of Microsoft's application virtualisation strategy (today known as Microsoft App-V) used by millions of users globally.

Since that time Tim provides his training classes, blogs and is a popular speaker on Briforum, Synergy and various industry events. With 10+ years of MS MVP status, multiple Citrix CTP awards and author of several industry books including new in 2017 “The Application Book” for packagers., Tim is the absolute global authority when it comes to instructing App-V technology.

You can follow him on Twitter (@TimothyMangan), check out his personal blog or read his articles on BrianMadden.com and other popular sites.

Sami Laiho is one of the world's leading professionals in the Windows OS. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management and security for more than 15 years.

Sami's session was evaluated as the best session and Sami as the best speaker in Ignite 2014, TechEd North America 2014 and in TechEd Australia 2013 and TechEd Europe 2013 was evaluated as the best session by an external speaker.

Since then he won many awards and prices; Ignite 2015 gave Sami a # 2 best speaker trophy. He was voted as best speaker at the Nordic IT Conference (NIC) in 2017 

Sami is also globally known as the creator of a free SteadyState replacement called Wioski (http://www.wioski.fi/) and a One-time Admin password creator called Adminizer (http://www.adminize.com/) and teaches his "Troubleshooting the Windows OS" and "Windows Internals" training classes to a 400+ expertise level around the world.

Paula Januszkiewicz

the Founder and CEO of CQURE. She is having a deep belief that high quality and positive thinking are key to success. In CQURE she devoted herself to her passion: Security Consulting – both for Management and IT Engineers, Penetration Tests, Architecture Consulting, Trainings (Authored), Seminars. She did hundreds of security projects, including those for governmental organizations. 

She is also is also a top speaker at many well- known conferences including Microsoft Ignite (she was rated No 1 Speaker among 1100 other Speakers), TechEd North America, TechEd Europe, TechEd Middle East, RSA, TechDays, CyberCrime, etc., and is often rated as number- one speaker.

Paula is engaged as a keynote speaker for security related events and she writes articles on Windows Security. She holds multiple Microsoft certifications, besides being familiar with and possessing certifications in other related technologies. Paula is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others. In private, she enjoys researching new technologies, which she converts to authored trainings. She has access to a source code of Windows..

Every year she makes over 200 flights each year to gain more and more experience, provides security consulting for top-100 companies and delivers penetration tests. Paula is a type that suffers when doing nothing, you can always expect some thoughtful ideas and interesting arguments.

James Baker- Manager - Solution Engineering

James has 20 years’ experience in the Enterprise Management arena. An expert in the implementation of application lifecycle processes and procedures, with very advanced application packaging and virtualization knowledge. As an expert in enterprise management has consulted and trained in the subject for multiple clients. Engagements have included the mobilization, management and delivery of Windows application migrations with AdminStudio. James has a strong focus on the way that Enterprises can better manage risk and security while ensuring the business gets the applications they need, when they need them.

Peter Daalmans is a Senior Technical Consultantwith CTGlobal with a primary focus on the System Center Configuration Manager and Enterprise Mobility.

Peter is awarded every year as a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP (Configuration Manager/Microsoft Intune/Enterprise Mobility Suite) since 2012. Peter writes blogs and sharing his knowledge on his blog ConfigMgrBlog.com. Peter is also one of the founders and leads of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands.

Peter is Author of Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Mastering System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager and the just in 2017 released Mastering System Center Configuration Manager, books from Sybex. Peter also released last year a book called: Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite: Planning and Implementation.

Peter speaks at local and international user group meetings, conferences like Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft TechEd (Australia / New Zealand), IT/Dev Connections, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), BriForum (London, Denver and Boston), TechDays Netherlands and ExpertsLive Netherlands.

Roel van Bueren is the Chief Architect and Product Director for the Setup Commander product range. With his team he wants Windows deployment, Windows Application deployment, Patch Management and Software Packaging to be as easy as possible. Hence his passion to create deployment tools which improve on speed, quality, automation and efficiency. 

With over 18+ years of experience, Jeroen Braak is the expert for Application Lifecycle Management related products in many roles.

Currently, Jeroen is responsible for the Business Development of Raynet in the USA where he is supporting partners, resellers and customers for SAM, Application Packaging and Win10 Migration challenges.
Before joining Raynet in 2014, Jeroen was sr. trainer and consultant with PDS b.v. where he trained and certified over 350 IT Professionals in the art of software packaging. During these 9+ years, Jeroen established the fundamentals of initiatives like AppManagEvent, CRTFY.COM (Global Certification Portal for Raynet and Flexera) and several training- and certification programs for Wise, Flexera Software and Raynet.

John Vintzel

Senior Program Manager for Windows Developer Experience Team. Focusing on Windows Store Apps (APPX), Windows Store and App Deployment

rla Akers is a Program Manager on the Windows Developer Platform and the MSIX effort. She has been focused on enterprise IT Pro application scenarios, and most recently has been responsible for the MSIX Packaging Tool.

Remko Weijnen is an EUC Specialist  with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. In the last 15 years he has become a true specialist in End User Computing, Application and Desktop Delivery.With his developer background Remko has a unique knowledge of windows and application internals that he uses to get applications to work well in virtual environments without sacrificing security.

Remko shares this unique knowledge thru his well-known blog, presentations at community events such as Citrix Synergy, E2EVC, the Dutch Citrix User Group and international Citrix User Groups.

On his website, Remko publishes a lot of VDI/SBC and virtualization related freeware, tools and scripts that assist consultants and administrators. Remko is also co-founder and steering group member of the Dutch Citrix User Group.

Jeff Wouters, MVP Windows PowerShell, has a main focus on automation and virtualization. He has a unlimited passion for Windows PowerShell, is the founder of the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUG) and frequent speaker at national and international IT events such as BriForum, E2E Virtualization Conference, Microsoft TechDays and multiple User Groups.

Erik Loef (Msc.), CTO and owner of PROXSYS, a private cloud company founded in 2001. Always had a great personal interest and passion for security. Especially breaking the security with very simple approaches, which is always an eye-opener. Working in the industry for more than 16 years. Great experience in advising and implementing security solutions. Happy to share this experience with other enthusiast IT pro’s.

Mikko Järvinen

Mikko is a system administrator, software packager, deployment dude, Windows guy, troubleshooter, geek.

Working at the IT Services in University of Turku, Finland, Mikko is responsible of desktop services team and wants to create better and user friendly IT. Mikko is a four-time Microsoft MVP, currently in Windows and Devices for IT.

Marcin Otorowski is Deputy Team Leader Development.He studied Mechatronics and has a Masters in Computer Science. His career in development started in 2005, when he worked as freelancer UI designer / programmer, specializing in web-based development and data integration. He has also a strong packaging experience, first for his private projects and then as a consultant and certified trainer for Raynet.

Working in many medium- and big size packaging projects let him understand challenges and issues packagers and managers have to face in order to meet the high-quality requirements within dedicated time. Being a passionate about new technologies and designs, he developed the distinctive style of RaySuite applications and is currently the desktop UI/UX visionary within Raynet.

As one of the lead Packaging Suite developers, he implemented solutions that solve complex problems leveraging simplicity and modern user experience designs. Marcin is also the lead of the Packaging Suite project.

Erik Derksen

– Owner of DerkIT
– Since 1999 "in IT"
– Practical 
– Simplifier 
– Likes sharing knowledge 
– Projects and changes only 
– Has also a technical focus 
– Acts as bridge between business and technology 
– Guides complex decisions and reduces them to the essence 
– Believes that humor, clarity, and simplicity are important.

Kenneth van Surksum works as a senior consultant at Insight24 and is specialized in public and private cloud solutions based on Azure and System Center. Kenneth also works with client management solutions based on System Center Configuration Manager and Intune. Kenneth is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and has multiple certifications. He received the MVP award multiple times, and has even been awarded as a VMware vExpert for a couple of years.

Kenneth has worked with System Center Configuration Manager since 1998 and has been responsible for implementing the product in large and small enterprise environments. He even authored some books on SCCM, with System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch Unleased being the latest released book. Kenneth regularly shares his knowledge by speaking on national and international events. He is co-founder of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands(WMUG NL), co-organizes ExpertsLive Netherlands and organizes community meetings on a regular basis.

As global recognized Configuration Manager MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer and senior consultant, Kent Agerlund has been working with SMS since 1997 and as a trainer/consultant since 1992. In 2009 he was the co-founder of System Center User Group Denmark.

Certified MCITP: Enterprise Administrator, MCSA+Messaging, MCT and Technology Specialist in Configuration Manager, MDOP and Windows 2008 R2 and much more.Member of: Microsoft Denmark System Center Partner Expert Team, The Danish Technet Influencers program, System Center Influencers Program.

Kent also speaks at several conferences each year, including MMS and TechEd/Ignite events around the world.  (Co)-author of several industry leading technology books on ConfigManager.

Niek Boevink 

Niek Boevink is a IT Architect at ITON, a Dutch company with a strong focus on application delivery and a long history in implementing Citrix and Microsoft products. ThisThis strong focus has meant that ITON has the Citrix Platinum status for a sustained period. We were early adopters of products like HDX3d, XenServer, Provisioning and APPDNA.

Niek has over 16 years’ experience in the design, implementation and quality control of SBC and VDI projects. In his role as IT Architect at ITON het carries out the trusted advisor role and aforementioned tasks as well as providing technical leadership and knowledge sessions to colleagues.

Additionally, he regularly give Citrix product based presentations and sessions at events in The Netherlands, such as for the Dutch Citrix Users Group, but also to the ITON internal organization and at ITON customer seminars and pre-sales events.

Mikael Nyström is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Technical Architect at TrueSec, with an extremely broad field of competence. He has worked with all kind of infrastructure tasks in all kind of environments, enterprise to small business. He is working deep within products such as Microsoft System Center, Windows and Windows Server. Mikael is a very popular instructor and is often used by Microsoft for partner trainings as well as to speak at major conferences such as TechEd, Ignite, MMS and TechDays, etc.

Owner of a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Bogdan Mitrache got introduced to the packaging industry during an internship at Advanced Installer.
He later joined the company as a member of the development and technical support teams, this combination proved to be a vital element in connecting the team's development efforts with the users' voices.

Bogdan is now a technology evangelist for Advanced Installer, showcasing the product at various conferences (Microsoft TechEd, Ignite, NDC London, Packaging Event, etc...). You can also find him helping the community on the Advanced Installer public forums and on StackOverflow.com.

He also provides dedicated training to Advanced Installer users, for top companies like Salesforce (San Francisco office) and KBC Bank.

Since the beginning, Dennis van Eijk has been a driving force behind research and development of the Scense Workspace management software. Many of the product’s innovative features originate in his creative mind. An authority on IT Management Automation, he is adept at designing intelligent solutions to complex problems. At AppiXoft, Dennis supports the development process and is responsible for research, architecture and engineering. He is also actively involved with research into new and expanded offerings.

Tom Scase

With over 15 years’ experience specialising in endpoint security and end user experience across Windows, Apple and mobile operating systems, Tom understands the challenges modern IT departments and security teams face. Acting as the lead technical resource in many high visibility enterprise accounts (100k+ users) and utilizing a blend of technical ability and commercial awareness, Tom regularly works with senior IT leaders and their teams to help implement Avecto’s security solutions.

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